have we had varieties of such high productivity, 
quality and wide adaptability to offer. Our Coker 
100 strains are the most productive cottons that 
we have ever bred or seen. We have found no 
cotton that will produce as much on non-wilt soils. 
The same is true of our Coker 4-in-l cotton on 
wilt lands. The use of these varieties has con¬ 
tributed much to our good yield records and those 
of our customers. 
FERTILIZER: Proper fertilization is an im¬ 
portant link in this chain. Farmers must study their 
soils and know their fertilizer requirements. If 
certain fields do not respond as they should, call 
in your County Agent and he will contact your soil 
expert and determine your trouble. In general, we 
find it pays the eastern farmer to use well balanced 
fertilizers under cotton and to supplement this with 
side applications of nitrate and potash, varying 
according to the needs of the soil. 
CULTIVATION: A good seed bed must be pre¬ 
pared before the crop is planted. Cover crop fields 
are first disced, then broken to a depth of 8 to 9 
inches with turn plow. They are allowed to stand 
for two weeks; rows are then run off from 3 to 3Vz 
feet apart. If compost is put in drill it should be 
covered lightly to prevent loss of ammonia. Well 
balanced fertilizer is put in drill at the rate of from 
400 to 600 pounds per acre and stirred with small 
sweep or shovel. The land is then bedded and allowed 
to stand two weeks before planting. Well bred, 
Ceresan treated seed are planted at the rate of 1 
bushel to the acre. As a general practice, we plant 
in hills 16 inches apart and thin to an average of 
three stalks. This is varied however to suit varieties 
and soils. 
BOLL WEEVIL CONTROL: Boll weevil control 
is so easy and so cheap that no farmer can afford 
not to use it. 
Bad boll weevil years are frequent but not fre¬ 
quent enough. A farmer gets by one year and 
makes a good crop so he thinks he will get by 
every year. Some in this immediate section thought 
they would get by this year and made ten to fifty 
per cent of a normal crop, while those who used 
control methods made a normal crop. 
First: We destroy all cotton stalks as soon as 
cotton is harvested. Weevils will leave these fields 
in search of other feeding grounds; Second: we 
destroy hibernating quarters; hay is baled and ditch- 
banks cleaned and burned; a strip is raked back in 
woods 100 feet from the edge of the fields, and 
Materials for simple, inexpensive and effective method 
of weevil control—the 1-1-1 formula. 
the area between burned during January or Febru¬ 
ary. These practices reduce greatly the number of 
emerging weevils. Third: The 1-1-1 liquid method 
of poisoning is used. One gallon of water, one pound 
calcium arsenate and one gallon of black-strap 
molasses are mixed. This is applied with a mop, 
preferably in the afternoon. (See photo below). 
The first application is made just before squaring, 
usually late in May or early June, and other appli¬ 
cations at weekly intervals. If conditions are fav¬ 
orable for emergence, this will kill from 90 to 100% 
of the over-wintered weevils. From 2 to 3 gallons of 
molasses and from 2 to 3 pounds calcium arsenate 
per acre is all the material required, and will cost 
50 to 75 cents and 50 cents will cover labor cost. 
The fields are carefully watched for signs of weevil, 
as some few weevils will come out late and escape 
poison. The squares are picked up and these areas 
lightly dusted. This link is cheap and not hard to 
forge strongly. 
We, ourselves, by emphasizing these practices, 
have greatly strengthened the whole chain of our 
cotton production. We are now doing better farm¬ 
ing and are making more pounds of cotton per 
acre than ever before. A few yield records will 
speak for themselves. 
For the past three years we have averaged a bale 
or more per acre on our entire planting. In 1938 
certain fields produced from 800 to 1,000 pounds of 
lint per acre, and one farm produced an average of 
804 pounds of lint on 103 acres. This farm during 
the five-year period 1929-1933 averaged 465 pounds 
of lint per acre, and during 1934-1938 the average 
was 774 pounds per acre. This shows an increase of 
309 pounds of lint per acre, or 66.4%. 
Above: Poisoning young cotton with the molasses, calcium arsenate and water method (1-1-1). Good crops are the 
result of intelligent farming practices. 
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